Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Doolittle

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

Judith Krantz

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

Karel Capek

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

Karl Lagerfeld

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

Kabir Bedi

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

Kanye West

I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

John Philip Sousa

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

P. J. O'Rourke

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.

Paul Feig

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

Paul Brown

The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.

Paul Bettany

Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.

Martha Beck

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Paul Goodman

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

Paul Auster

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

Julia Roberts

People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

Julia Roberts

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

Joseph Rotblat

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

Nelly

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

Noam Chomsky

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Mike Pence

In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.

Pat Robertson

The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.

P. J. O'Rourke

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

Martin Heidegger

The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

Nick Saban

It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.

Nick Hornby

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

Mary McCarthy

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

Mitchell Baker

Ther average consumer does not know the difference between the browser, the internet, and the search box.

Liz Phair

I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess.

Oliver North

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.

Marcy Kaptur

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

Larry the Cable Guy

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Larry Wall

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

Pablo Picasso

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.